On the Critique of Fetishism and the Transcendence of Fetishism by Karl Marx
The Critique of Fetishism is an important part of Marx's theory of capitalism and has received significant scholarly attention.Fetishism is an unity of social existence and social consciousness.As social existence,Fetishism has three forms:Commodity Fetishism,Currency Fetishism and Capital Fetishism.The progression of the three forms also constitutes the process of the development of Fetishism.As social consciousness,the concept of Fetishism consists of the acceptance and identification towards Fetishism by commodity producers,and its theoretical ideology:Bourgeois political economy.Das Kapital has proved that the Bourgeois political economists'doctrine of the eternity of fetishism is an illusion.Fetishism is to die out with the development of productivity.And the alternative mode of production to Fetishism is the Community of Free Individuals.The Community of Free Individuals shall finally break the fetters of Fetishism by transforming the relations of production through abandoning private ownership,adopting the measure of labor time,and realizing the true free association of individuals.However,the transition to the Community of Free Individuals is an arduous and long process,which is premised on a certain material basis and realized in the revolutionary practice of the proletariat.
Das KapitalFetishismThe Community of Free Individuals
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